That many theologians disagree with Darwin’s theory of evolution comes as no surprise

They talked of the gunfight at Headford and of the ambush at Tureengarriffe glenBack in the young days of Sean Moylan who led Duhallow’s rebel men.Yet their stories failed to inspire me to want to die for God and CountryFor they only talked of the Tan wars when they had drunk something stronger than teaThe…

Though such cowardly and callous attacks on civilians are happening in Iraq every dayThat Country to us seems so foreign and from our thoughts seems far away.One can only feel for the civilian casualties of London for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq they are not to blameThough their Government will not admit to it…

Her memory still good for one of her yearsAnd she looks back with no regrets or tears.She’s ninety years or so i have been toldBut looking at her she doesn’t look that oldIf you asked me what age Una might beI’d say she’s seventy going on seventy three.She was a champion dancer in her dayAnd…

And your works compare with your Irish contemporary greatsWith Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats.To criticize your work would seem unfairAs with the best your verses can compareAnd in your work see mental pictures here and thereAnd i loved that poem the poem you called ‘The Snare’.I read that poem and re-read it againAnd i…

And good poets come and good poets go but their words will live onAnd their poems will be read and loved long after they are gone.The poets live on in their words and though with the dead they layTheir poems by centuries will outlive their own physical decayAnd though nothing lives forever save for Nature’s…

The moon beams like gold dust on her nut brown hairAnd sweet scenting the perfume she did wear.The only sounds leaves rustling in the breezeAnd boobook calling on the moonlit treesAnd water lapping on bank of lake shoreThe self same sounds repeated o’er and o’er.When I went to put my arms around her she said…